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The Birth of Pharez and Zarah

(Netherlandish, about 1538/39–1617)
(Netherlandish, 1498–1574)
about 1566
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 21.8 × 25.4 cm (8 9/16 × 10 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB2769
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: 4; lower center: MHeemskerck In; and in lower margin: POST THAMAR GEMINOS VITALES ÆDIT IN AVRAS POSSITVR AD POENAS, SIC STAT [the rest of the inscription has been torn off]
ProvenanceJune 12, 1900, bequeathed to the MFA by William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 208), Paris. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife
Harmen Jansz. Muller
about 1566